Yaryna Chornohuz

Poet

Born in Kyiv in 1995, Yaryna Chornohuz initially joined the Ukrainian military as a paramedic in the volunteer medical battalion. After her partner was killed in action, she became a soldier with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

In 2020, her poetry about trench warfare was published in a book called “How the War Circle Bends.”

Among myriad honors and awards, she won the prestigious Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in 2024.

Yaryna poet